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PATENTED JAN. 5, 1904.-

H. STOGKMAN.

BALE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 17, 1902.

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PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY STOOKMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BALE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 748,999,dated January 5, 1904.

Application filed July 17, 1902- or wire used in tying the same being usually.

passed around the four sides of the bundle and fastened together at its ends by knotting or twisting at the upper side'thereof. In baling together bundles tied up in such manner when pressure is applied to the same during the baling operation the cord or wire on one bundle will be forced or pressed into the adj acent blank of the next bundle and so crease or cut the same as to injure and materially impair its value. Such being the fact, it has been the object of my invention to provide a cheap and simple method or means of balin g together these bundles whereby the same will be firmly united without marring or injuring the same in any way.

To this end my invention consists in the employment of the novel method or means as hereinafter set forth in detail, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a single bundle of leather blanks. Fig. 2 is an enlarged side elevation of a number of bundles of leather blanks baled together in accordance with my invention, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view to be hereinafter referred to.

In said drawings, 1 indicates a bundle of leather blanks or pieces which comprises in the present instance shown a dozen blanks 2, firmly tied together by a cord or wire 3, the latter being fastened or knotted together at 4.

In carrying my invention into effect a desired number of the bundles 1 are placed one above or adjacent to the other, with a correspondingly-shaped sheet of strawboard or other material of less density than the leather blanks, as indicated at 5, placed between each two bundles. When the bundles 1 and Serial No. 116,923- (No model.)

the intermediate sheets 5 have been thus placed together, boards or strips 6 will be located at the top and bottom of the same, over which the baling or tie wires 7 7 will pass, these boards or strips being preferably provided with transverse cleats 8 8 adjacent to each end thereof, which are of such thickness as to hold or support the said boards against undue pressure on the cord or wire passing over the adjacent surface of the bundle. The several parts constituting the bale now being assembled, the same will be put under pressure and the baling-wires 7' 7 passed around the same and secured in any suitable manner. Under the pressure thus applied in baling the bundles the tie cord or wire 3 of each bundle and its knotted or twisted ends 4 will be forced into the intermediate sheets 5 and become embedded therein, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3. As these cords or wires 3 extend across the adjacent sides of each bundle approximately at right angles to each other, it will be obvious that when they become embedded in the sheets 5 in the completed bale said sheets will act as tie-pieces to securely lock the bundles against undue lateral or endwise movement relative to each other. The sheets 5 thus serve a twofold -purpose-first, as a means to receive the bundle tie cords or wires, and thereby prevent any undue pressure of the same into the leather blanks, such as would tend to crease or otherwise injure the bundles against lateral or endwise movement relative to each other.

Although I have referred particularly to leather blanks as constituting the bundles to be baled in accordance with my invention, it will of course be understood that the invention might be applicable to bundles of articles other than leather blanks.

Having thus set forth my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A bale formed of a plurality of bundles each held together by encircling tie-pieces, sheets of material of less density than the material composing the individual bundles interposed between adjacent bundles, and means for holding the parts of the bale together under pressure, whereby the tiepieces IKO of the individual bales are caused to become tie-piece 3, sheets of material, 5, of less density than the articles contained in the individual bundles interposed between the adjacent bundles, strips 6 of relatively dense material arranged at the top and bottom respectively of the bale, and encircling wires passing over the said strips and around the bale and serving to hold the parts thereof together underpressure, substantially as set forth.

HENRY STOOKMAN.

Witnesses:

CHAS. F. DANE, M. L. FORREST. 

